Improved sap-bucket for the manufacture of maple-sugar



J. FAIRCHILD Sap-Spout.

N0. sasmaf Patented June 10. 1862,

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICEQ JOHN H'. FAIRGHILD, OF HIGHGATE, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND O. P. STIMETS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED SAP-BUCKET FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MAPLE-SUGAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,56], dated June 10,1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. FAIRCHILD, of Highgate, in the county of Franklin and State of Vermont, have invented a newand useful Artiele'for the Purpose of Catching Sap, or, in other words, a Sap-Bucket; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makin g a part of my specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective, and Fig. 2 is a top View. t

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will 7 proceed to describe it.

box some five minutes, which preserves the wood by making it impervious'to moisture, and after this coating has become sufficiently dry Iboil down aquantity of the above cement to the consistency of common pitch-such as is used on shipping-with which, while hot, I, with a painters brush, pass over all thejoints on theinside, which,when dry, will make them watertight, whereby I obtain a cheaper and more durable article than the ordinary bucket, and also one that is proof against the ravages of animals and vermin.

I do not claim the composition of matter used in forming the cement, as it has been used before; neither do I claim the construction of the box, as it is an article of common use; neither do I wish to confine myself to the specified size, leaving it to be varied; but

What I do claim is-- The-combination of the cement and box for the specific purpose of catching sap, or a sapbucket, to be used in the-manufacture of maple-sugar.

JOHN H. FAIRGHILD.

' Witnesses:

U. P. STIMEIS, A. H. SPEAR. 

